As the world turns:

The daughter of Republican House Speaker John Boehner got married on Friday in Delray Beach, Fla.

Lindsay Boehner, 35, and 38-year-old Dominic Lakhan wed Friday evening in Delray Beach, Fla.

He has long dreadlocks. He smokes the ganja. He is a construction worker (“…how many jobs you got, mon?”). She is the daughter of one of the most powerful conservatives in the most powerful country on the planet. This only goes to show that there is some truth in the lyrics of that lovely reggae tune by Johnny Osbourne: “Love is an international affair…”

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...